View, 你或许可以狡辩你的连接速度这些主观感受，但是你在客户端上你是完败

 

Brian Madden，北美著名的桌面虚拟化领域独立评论员（出版了若干著作，已经发表了超过2000篇桌面和应用虚拟化的文章），最近发表了一篇博客，非常客观的评价了Citrix XenDesktop和VMware View在客户端层面的一个分析，全部用数字说话。

 

要点：

1．Citrix XenDesktop和VMware View到底谁好？ 主观感受方面都说自己好，暂且搁置；

2．在客户端领域，Citrix完败VMware View

a)        Citrix几乎支持地球上的每一种设备，目前它已经供超过10亿台设备使用。其中包括1000多款PC和Mac电脑，149款智能手机，37款平板电脑，以及10种不同类型的瘦客户机，可以在所有主流操作系统平台上运行，甚至包括新兴的iOS、Android、webOS、ChromeOS等。

除了提供多样、灵活的选择，升级后的Citrix Receiver还能让用户完全自主地选择他们所需要的应用，无论这些应用是基于Windows、或网络、或SaaS平台，一旦用户在某台设备上选择了一款新的应用，Citrix Receiver会自动在其他设备中添加该应用。

未来，Citrix Receiver还将提供不同设备之间的数据同步功能。利用Citrix Receiver，可以在任何地点、通过任何设备，与各种桌面、应用和数据进行无缝交互，真正获得7X24的全天候“个人云”服务。

b)        而View呢？很可怜，他只支持PC和iPad，甚至连iPhone都不支持，每当用户问起来，只好说iPhone太小，不适合虚拟化，呜呼哀哉

 

You know where Citrix XenDesktop beats VMware View today? It's the clients. 

Written on Jun 07 2011 
Filed under: Client Software, Citrix XenDesktop, VMware, VMware View, Citrix
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by Brian Madden

At my Desktop Virtualization 2011 event in Atlanta last week (which will be in Detroit this week and St. Louis
next week), one of the questions I was asked was, "Which is better: XenDesktop or View?" I've historically answered that question with some form of, "It depends." Last week I talked about how View was easier to install while warning of the Pepsi challenge and how Citrix is fighting back with Kaviza. I talked about my experience from my "VDI Only" test earlier this year (I promise I'll publish those results soon), where I decided that both Citrix HDX and VMware PCoIP are "fine." (Sure there are situations where one is better than the other, but overall? Meh... They're both fine.)

But there's one area where Citrix clearly beats VMware: Client device support. Citrix has HDX clients for just about every device on the planet
, including Windows, Mac, iOS (including iPad & iPhone), Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, WebOS, pure HTML5, Java, Unix, and Linux. In fact at Synergy last week, Citrix mentioned that there are more that one billion devices in the world that can run their client.

VMware, on the other hand, has a View PCoIP clients for Windows and the iPad. That's it. (Seriously, it's just the iPad
.. not even the iPhone.) Sure, VMware can broker connections using the RDP protocol to remote VDI sessions, but those connections don't make use of their PCoIP protocol. And theMac client in the list below is RDP-only. It only exists to connect to the View Connection Server. If you want to use PCoIP and you're connecting from a Mac, you need to buy Fusion and then run Windows in a VM so you can the real PCoIP client.

(Of course there are many thin clients that support each as well, if that's your thing.)

VMware claims that they were working on a Mac client, but then they shifted priorities around to do the iPad client instead. That's too bad. For a company that made $357m profit on $2.8b in sales last year who's supposedly focused on the desktop, you'd think they could scrape together enough change to maybe release a Mac and an Android client?

But looking at that list.. dang! I think that if I'm in charge of a deployment, I love the fact that using XenDesktop means that I can deliver a desktop to just about anything. (It's like a late-night used car lot advertising that they'll take any trade-in. "Push it, pull it, drag it, tow it... we'll take it!") I don't have to worry about the client at all. But if I use View, I can support Windows and iPad. (Well, and Mac via RDP.) But other RDP clients, like for Android, Linux, etc., don't have the code to connect through View's broker, so they're worthless for View.